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HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Green?

Huffington Post | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green

Read More: New Media's Top 10 Game Changers, Slidepoll, Gavin Starks, Ken Cook, Treehugger, Huffpost Green Game Changers, Gary Hirshberg, Isabella Rossellini, Green Game Changers, Game Changers Green, Annie Leonard, Tags, David De Rothschild, Graham Hill, Bill Mckibben, Brent Schulkin, Roger Doiron, Green News

(VOTING IS NOW CLOSED) HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power o...

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Contest: Six-Words on Water

Larry Smith | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Smith Magazine, Contest, Treehugger, Six-Word Memoirs, Water, Green News

Here's a Six-Word Challenge about one of summer's treats and earth's increasingly rare resources: water

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If the Future of Fashion Isn't Green, What Is It?

Starre Vartan | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Julie Gilhart, James Woudhuysen, Barney's, Eco Fashion, Fashion, SoHo House, Treehugger, Green News

Julie Gilhart, Barney's: "If the way we make beautiful clothing... actually damages the natural environment and our precarious health within it, how can we enjoy this kind of so called beauty?"

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Top "10" Green Twitter Tweeters (Who You Should Follow)

Waylon Lewis | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Summer Rayne Oakes, Twitter, Mnn, Green, Web, Old Media, Community, Media, Treehugger, Ecofashion, Shea Gunther, New Media, Huffington Post, Waylon Lewis, David Burdick, Elephant Journal, Communication, Media News

Just three active months on Twitter later, I've gained 4,900 followers -- and, more importantly, Twitter is among my web site's top ten traffic sources.

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GREEN Treehugger: 6 Clean Start-Ups To Watch In 2009

Treehugger | Jaymi Haymbach | Posted 02.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Huffpost Ball, Green Business, Green Companies, Clean Start-Ups, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Treehugger, Green News

2008 was a banner year for green tech start ups. While the economy crashed, investments in clean technology stayed relatively strong. We're taking a l...

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GREEN: Treehugger's Green Matrix

Huffington Post | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Huffpost Ball, Green Matrix, Treehugger, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Green News

Where would you fall on the Green matrix? On the Dark Green "cutting edge" alongside Van Jones, or on the Light Green "so last year" alongside clean c...

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A Christmas Present from Israel: A Bloodless Medical Exam

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 01.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Israel, Doctors, Treehugger, Tel Aviv University, Personal Health, Medicine, Health, Blood Tests, Medical Tests, Injection, Green News

Thanks to new research, unnecessary and uncomfortable medical and psychological tests can now be replaced with a pencil and paper -- and can provide a much more accurate forecast.

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New Drug Is The Bees' Knees for America's Bees

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Bees, Ecology, Colony Collapse Disorder, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Israel, United States, Animals, Pollution, Treehugger, Green News

America's bee colonies are collapsing. It's a big mystery, with much at stake. Green websites like TreeHugger have been on the case since the phenom...

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Obama's and McCain's Green Promises Are Just a Matter of Speech

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Obama Speeches, Energy, Solar Energy, Mccain Energy Policy, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Environment, Mccain, Obama, Treehugger, Election, Green News

Obama said this about solar power. McCain said that about climate change. You no longer have to spar with your "green" friends over who is saying what...

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The Next Wonder Drug? Just Ask Mother Nature

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Mother Nature, Disease, Health, Nature, Environment, Israel, Cancer, Cures, Tel Aviv University, Treehugger, Flower Power, Green News

I talk with scientific researchers every day, and can't help but notice a growing trend: what was once relegated to the realm of naturopaths, witchdoc...

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Why John McCain May Have More Green Staying Power

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.27.2008 | Green

Read More: John McCain, Environment, Foreign Oil, Oil Independence, Barak Obama, Treehugger, Energy Policy, Green News

Gal Luft is the most hated man in Riyadh, Detroit, and Des Moines, according to Esquire Magazine who's voted him as one of America's brightest in 200...

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Middle East Oil Barons Turn America's Oil Woes Into Clean Technology

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fossil Fuels, Middle East, Peak Oil, Environment, Oil, Clean Technology, Treehugger, America, Green News

One would think that members countries from the OEPC in the Persian Gulf who are sitting on a quarter of the world's oil reserves would like to stall the development of clean technologies and thereby the creation of alternatives to oil, right? Nope.

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100 Months and Counting Until Climate Change Is Irreversible

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Taxes, United Kingdom, Oil Prices, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Credits, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, United States, Treehugger, Global Warming, Green News

Runaway changes in weather patterns will start, there will be droughts; we can expect to see the collapse of species in the sea and on land. Basically, terribly scary stuff is expected to happen.

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Five Reasons Why Preserving Summer Fruits Like Grandma Is Green

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Organic Food, Fruit, Cooking Recipes, Cooking, Environment, Food, Canada, Diy, Treehugger, Health, Green News

I say we need a revolution -- one where people spend less time at shopping malls, and more in the kitchen.

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Palestinians' New Agriculture Park Might Spell Catastrophe for Peace and the Environment

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Sea of Galilee, Israel-Palestine, Water, Environment, Environmentalism, Israel, Palestinians, Treehugger, Water Insecurity, Green News

Israel and its surrounding region suffers greatly from water shortages. Water is a national concern, and if there is one thing that concerns everyone ...

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Eco-Touring in the Middle East: How About Jordan, Iran and Lebanon?

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Jordan, Iran, Green Travel, Middle East, Environment, Lebanon, Travel, Treehugger, Eco-Tourism, Eco-Travel, Global Democracy, Israel, Green News

ISA issues aside, eco-touring is no longer a concept found only in the West. More Middle Eastern organizations are starting to cater to the ecologically minded and are marketing eco-tours.

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Killing the Dead Sea Twice Is Good for Politicians, Not the Environment

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Jordan, Politics, Red Sea, Shimon Peres, Ecology, Middle East, World Bank, Environment, Israel, Palestine, Treehugger, Dead Sea, Green News

The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.

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When Ugly Is Greener

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Tel Aviv, Going Green, Design, Green, Israel, Bicycling, Green Living, Treehugger, Transportation, Bike, Green News

I've gone through about seven different bikes in as many years. The relative speed at which each bike was stolen was related to how beautiful it was.

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Israeli Cleantech Experts Prepare For China, But Not Greenpeace

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Tel Aviv, Clean Technologies, Renewable Fuel, Shimon Peres, Renewable Energy, Israel, Isaac Berzin, United States, Greenpeace, Treehugger, Cleantech, Global Warming, Greenfuel, Al Gore, China, Environment, Green News

When it comes to global warming, the U.S. thinks they are the center of the world.

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Treehugger: Bush Is Right On Farm Subsidies

Treehugger | Jeremy Elton Jacquot | Posted 05.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Farm Subsidy, Bush Farm Subsidy, Green, Treehugger, Business News

It's not often we find ourselves agreeing with President Bush's viewpoint but, in the case of the subsidy-larded farm bill, we'll make an exception. A...

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